If you are Steve Smith.....

[coralreefer_1]

I'm not sure why I began thinking about it....but during the game I couldn't stop thinking about 89.

We are 14-0, two games out that we should win rather easily from being 16-0, and very much super bowl contenders.

I wonder though...how Steve Smith might be handling this. On a base, I'm sure he doesn't care really. However deep down in his heart, I wonder what he, or any of us might be thinking and feeling right now. He is injured and his season is over in all practical sense. He had announced he would retire and "may" recant on that and come back next year.. Most of us love him and lamented his departure from this team. The next season as soon as he is gone we become the best team we have ever been.

Part of me thinks, that if we go on as we have been and finish 16-0, or even win the Super Bowl (notice i didn't say Superb Owl because that mess is just played out)....at some point he will gut check himself and have to spend the rest of his life knowing that his attitude and mouth cost him the chance to be a part of what we are doing now. 89 was the man, but the diva got the better of him and because of that (if we are to believe that he was a detriment to the locker room and Cam's growth as a QB), that he was released because of it.

Think about that for a moment. I can try (but really cannot) imagine what it must feel like to work so hard for something (a job, a woman, etc etc) for so many years....only to see it prosper after I am gone. It's like putting in time since high school with the girl that was a 6 at best, and dating her all through high school. college and grad school...then breaking up,  only to watch her go on a diet, get in shape, get a little sass in her step... and suddenly become a 9.5

 

I truly feel for Smitty. Sure he will live far more comfortably than I ever will. Sure, he will have many more things and experiences that his years in the NFL have afforded him. With that said however, that "stuff in the basement" that doesn't get talked about, but lurks deep down in a man's soul can darken even the brightest things...and as years go on eat more and more away.

 

Not quite sure how to finish up what may be my first thread here. Just feeling something deep for Smitty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gin and Juice]

Really? His time ran its course! Move on for this can be said about ALL former Panthers

[Hotsauce]

#89 doesn't give a shlt. 

The man was loyal to the Panthers all those years we sucked.  He chose to stay and resign with the Panthers, because he wanted to retire a Panther.  He could have asked for a trade, never resigned, gone to a continder long ago. We cut him, he has moved on, why can't we?

Im not even sure why I am even wasting my time contributing to his thread....we are 14-0

[Jeremy Igo]

Welp 

[coralreefer_1]

It shows that few if any bothered to read the OP. It wasnt about Smith as a member of our team, or wanting him back, or even lamenting that he is gone (I am on record supporting that decision)

Its about a man putting in years of work for a goal that was never reached, only to see that dream reached (hopefully) after he was removed, and having to spend the rest of his life dwelling on the fact that maybe if he had been able to keep himself in check a bit more, he wouldnt have been released and been able to be a part of it.

[blackcat]

'Just feeling something deep for smitty.'

Is that a line from Brokeback Mountain?

[Jeremy Igo]

I mean, there is a Steve Smith thread every single week. The Panthers are 14-0 and he hasn't been a panther for two seasons. 

I just can't wrap my head around it.

[pantherclaw]

Agent 89 is exactly where he wanted to be. 

 

The NFL is not a kind mistress.

 

It's a shame his last season in the NFL has been what it is.  He should not return for one.more year, as Achilles injury takes two years to really come back from, if he even then for old man #89.

 

Let it lay.

[coralreefer_1]

16 hours ago, blackcat said:

'Just feeling something deep for smitty.'

Is that a line from Brokeback Mountain?

I'm not sure? I dont believe I have ever seen the movie...but maybe you can tell us about it?

 

Its a line from a man that has regrets of his own, and can feel the pain another will likely feel knowing that going forward he let his personality fug him out of the ultimate goal of his career and life.

 

Does that mean he has a broken back?

 

 

 

 

 

[cbarrier90]

This season really has me longing for the days when our QB was hit and miss on end-of-game drives, 7-9, and punts were good plays...

I'll gladly welcome Smitty back when he realizes DG and this franchise are getting the last laugh.

[Jmac]

I'm not sure why you are thinking about this either 

[Zaximus]

Guy is gone.  Talked crap and still talks crap on his way out else he may have a chance of coming back.  It's over now.   He can watch us in the playoffs from his couch for the 2nd year in a row.

[ThPantherFan]

Smith could care less.  He's paid whether he plays or not.  Not saying he's not competitive but he has moved on and so should we.  I do hope he retires a Panther but I'm not losing sleep over it.

[shreddingdefense]

1 hour ago, thebigcat said:

Cam has morphed into an MVP without him... good riddance

So that is what it is. Cam became a power ranger.